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Archive for November, 2009

Ok kiddos you all have told me your thoughts on using all of Prometheans equipment. Now I just have to chill out and get ready for my presentation. I hope I am ready for this. I love to be prepared as all of you know but this presentation may be out of my league. Now I know how you all feel when you are learning something new and I ask you to talk about it in front of the class. Because right now as I look over the information about the sessions at this conference next week I totally feel that some of these teachers, administrators, presenters, and etc are going to be like “she has only had this stuff for 4 months what could she possibly know.” So wish me luck and get ready to show what you all know as we start to film a short video for my presentation!!!!!

Tonight is the night to come and experience an amazing night of Space Activities presented by Gresham Middle School Science Department. Please come and experience this night of firsts while having a blast and learning at the same time!!!! 5 to 7 p.m. tonight!!!!

Don’t forget that Super Science Space Spectacular is Tuesday night from 5-7. Please come out and experience this first ever Science event. A letter was sent home today asking for any supplies that could be donated for this event. If you could help donate any of these items please send them in as soon as possible. Thank you again!!!!!

I have amazing news….. ORAU has been nice enough to give our class an early Christmas present….5 more iPod Touches so that every student may now have their own and not have to share. THANK YOU ORAU!!!!!!

Data Volume and Maximum Downlink Rate: The data volume is 461 Gb per day and downlink is 100 Mb per second.

Spacecraft Provider: The spacecraft was built by engineers at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

Orbit: The trip to the moon will take approximately four days. LRO will then enter an elliptical orbit, also called the commissioning orbit. From there, it will be moved into its final orbit â€” a circular polar orbit approximately 50 kilometers (31 miles) above the moon’s surface.

LRO facts.
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Sept.15 LRO maneuvered into it’s 50 k m mapping orbit

he power of the L.R.O. is 685 watts

the project costs approxamently $500 million

the total mas at launch is 1916 kilograms

the L.R.O. is 152 inches tall

Duration: LRO has a one-year exploration mission followed by a possible three-year science mission.

Mass: The total mass at launch is 1,916 kilograms (4,224 pounds). The dry mass is 1,018 kilograms (2,244 pounds), and fuel is 898 kilograms (1,980 pounds).

Power: Spacecraft power is 685 watts.

Dimensions: Stowed in the rocket (solar array and high-gain antenna folded up), LRO is 152 inches tall. LRO measures 103 inches from the instrument module to the stowed solar array and 108 inches from the stowed high-gain antenna to Mini-RF antenna. After launch, LRO’s deployed solar array is 168 inches Ã— 126 inches. The three panels together are 168 inches wide and extend out from the spacecraft 126 inches. The deployed high-gain antenna extends out 102 inches.

Data Volume and Maximum Downlink Rate: The data volume is 461 Gb per day and downlink is 100 Mb per second.

Spacecraft Provider: The spacecraft was built by engineers at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

Orbit: The trip to the moon will take approximately four days. LRO will then enter an elliptical orbit, also called the commissioning orbit. From there, it will be moved into its final orbit â€” a circular polar orbit approximately 50 kilometers (31 miles) above the moon’s surface.

Mission Operations Center: The Mission Operations Center (MOC) resides at NASA Goddard Space Flight in Greenbelt, Md. Engineers at Goddard will control the spacecraft after separation, during lunar orbit insertion, and for mission operations. The MOC flows raw data to principal investigators.

Planetary Data System: Principal investigators will deliver instrument data to the Planetary Data System within six months after initial operations. The Planetary Data System is a publicly accessible repository of science data for planetary missions.

Project Cost: The project’s life cost is approximately $500 million.

The instrument payload of LRO consists of seven scientific instruments from partner institutions around the nation and globe, including one instrument contributed by the Institute for Space Research in Moscow. These instruments will return lunar imagery, topography, temperatures, and more.

Students and I analyzed what topics they had the most difficulty with on their Life Unit test and I am now reteaching and retesting topics not mastered. We are so far behind but we will catch up eventually. We will probably be finished reviewing all topics that weren’t mastered by Friday and will be ready to start Space and The Universe on Monday!!!!!